Paper's abstract

Horatia Muir-Watt, Private Law and Public Law in International Relationships (Towards a Publicisation of the Conflict of Laws?)
Reviewing private international law shows that this field follows a cyclical pattern of evolution, which also affects the part respectively occupied, among the bases of the theory of the conflict of laws, by considerations concerning either protecting the interests of the State or looking for a justice particular to private relationships. This is why this theory took, in the middle of this century, a definite bend towards private law. However several signs already indicate that the influence of considerations on public law tend to grow nowadays, in order to change again the aspect of international private law.

Key Words : international, private, public
t. 41, 1997 : p. 207-214